Insulation cost in Houston: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Houston owners paid a median $2,000 for insulation: $500 above the U.S. median, third-highest of 6 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Houston owners paid
$2,000
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$778: at 90% confidence the Houston median lies between $1,222 and $2,778.
How Houston compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $1,500
- Rank, highest first
- 3 of 6
Houston: $2,000. The big-metro medians run from $1,000 to $2,857.
9 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 6.
No published figure: Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Riverside, San Francisco, Seattle.
What it covers
Adding or replacing insulation anywhere in the house: attic, walls or floors.
The Census category is “Insulation” within “Interior Additions and Replacements”: what Houston-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
Ask every contractor to price the same scope, in writing. Which surfaces, removal, access and air-sealing tasks are included?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.